Botanical Buzz Podcast

Celebrating the Bond Between People and Plants

Botanical Buzz gives you a new medium and new angles from which to explore your Botanical Garden. It covers a variety of topics such as birding, exploring the garden with your child, water conservation, and how climate change is affecting water availability. Our guests include some of the world's preeminent scientists as well as knowledgeable botanical garden volunteers, users, and staff with interesting and useful information to share. We hope these reports will inspire you to learn more about the world of plants, their connection to people, and how it affects you. Come take a listen!

Designers from around the world took part in the Gondwana Circle Design Competition at the San Franicisco Botanical Garden. On this report, Michael Overby and Emma Fuller, winners of the competition, share their ideas about the project.

This tour is amazing. Our guide is Mia Monroe, Site Supervisor at Muir Woods National Monument. Her knowledge about redwoods and her natural history perspective are amazing. I hope you check out the San Francisco Botanical Garden’s Redwood Trail Walking Tour. … Jerry Kay, Host of Botanical Buzz and Walking Tour Producer

Fog is indispensible for the redwoods because it helps the trees meet their water needs. Learn more from Mia Monroe, Site Supervisor at Muir Woods National Monument. (Our Redwood Trail Walking Tour guided by Mia Monroe is now available)

You can find out how easy it is to grow your own vegetables in San Francisco by visiting our new demonstration garden. Learn more from Jay Estey, Membership Manager at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

The San Francisco Botanical Garden is sponsoring an open, one-stage, international competition to select a design for the Gondwana Circle. Learn all about the Gondwana Circle Design Competition from Bill Liskamm, the competition adviser.

Walk into this garden with your imagination turned on, says our guest Nan Crystal Arens, professor of geoscience at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York and adviser for the ancient plant garden’s renovation, and remember that the plants in this garden are the fabulous survivors!